“A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.”

“He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.p92”

“You gonna stand in my backyard and ignore me to my face?”

“That was a funny thing about friends, Marylin thought. You could know a person practically your whole life and she could still surprise you.”

“Everybody's broken, sweetie. God helps us get put back together. ~Rev. Mayes The Kind of Friends We Used to Be”

“You can't expect a person to love an animal they might see decapitated at any minute. It ain't realistic," I told Miss Blue, who was gulping down her worm. She looked up at me like it shocked her to learn that some chickens got treated that way.”

“Tobin, my man, you are going to learn about chickens. And when you to learn about chickens, you will learn about life.”